 THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the...  English Grammar - Page 174by Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Burroughs - 1892 - 272 pages
...dandelion. The last, I think, is the most pleaslug of. these poems : — u Dear common flower, that growest beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome Jlay." Ta3 dandelion is indeed, in our latitude, the pledge of May. It comes when the grass is short,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 680 pages
...seize upon her; Follow thy life, and she will sue To pour for thee the cup of honor. TO THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...round May match in wealth, thou art more dear to me Thau all the prouder summer-blooms may be. Gold such as thine ne'er drew the Spanish prow Through the... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler - 1894 - 86 pages
...heads. The heads solitary on hollow milky scapes. The flowers seated together upon a soft fleshy disk. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold!— Lowell. The common dandelion belongs to the great family of Compositse, which is distinguished by having... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 348 pages
...arrow-seed ' are beautifully separated and expanded. 46, 8. —A flower all gold. So Lowell wrote, "De :r common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold." — To the Dandelion. 46, 9.— bravely. 'Finely,' 'admirably.' This sense is archaic, but was common... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 300 pages
...century was the year 101 AD ? Are Chinese " Europeans " ? Where is Egypt ? LXXI. TO THE DANDELION. l. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth!—thou art more dear to 2. My childhood's earliest thoughts are linked with thee; The sight... | |
 | Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews - 1895 - 336 pages
...common flower with perfect indifference ; but there was one man who did not. It was Lowell, who said : " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An El Dorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth — thou... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 300 pages
...century was the year 101 AD ? Are Chinese " Europeans " ? Where is Egypt ? LXXI. TO THE DANDELION. l. Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold High -hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 266 pages
...flowers, the violet and the dandelion. The last, I think, is the most pleasing of these poems: — " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May." The dandelion is indeed, in our latitude, the pledge of May. It comes when the grass is short, and... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 270 pages
...flowers, the violet and the dandelion. The last, ,1 think, is the most pleasing of these poems : — " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May." The dandelion is indeed, in our latitude, the pledge of May. It comes when the grass is short, and... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 268 pages
...flowers, the violet and the dandelion. The last, I think, is the most pleasing of these poems: — " Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing...with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May." The dandelion is indeed, in our latitude, the pledge of May. It comes when the grass is short, and... | |
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